One day after the House voted to repeal Obamacare, some lawmakers are turning their attention toward the bureaucracy created by the bill. Reps. Fred Upton, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Cliff Stearns, chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, are investigating the new Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO).
On Thursday, Upton and Stearns sent CCIIO director Jay Angoff a letter with questions about the office’s structure, authority and recent decision to grant waivers throughout several industries, exempting companies from complying with the bill’s requirements.
“Most troubling is that your office is currently responsible for deciding who does not have to comply with the massive new regulations imposed by the PPACA [Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act],†said the letter. “Currently your office has approved waivers from the PPACA’s annual limits requirements for 222 applicants.â€
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/20/rep-upton-begins-investigation-of-health-care-bureaucracy/#ixzz1BcHsKw8a
It will be interesting to see if politics played a role or should I say how much of a role politics played in granting or denying waivers. Did they grant most of them to keep a sudden ballooning of the uninsured from happening?
